IF LOOKS COULD KILL Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin in tense G20 standoff as the famously hostile pair fail to reach a breakthrough on Syria  —  Grinning Putin shakes hands with stony-faced Obama after US President was snubbed by Chinese hosts  —  PICTURED

Duterte tells Obama not to question him about killings  —  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned President Barack Obama on Monday not to question him about extrajudicial killings, or “son of a bitch I will swear at you” when they meet in Laos during a regional summit.

Hillary Clinton Gets Gored  —  Americans of a certain age who follow politics and policy closely still have vivid memories of the 2000 election — bad memories, and not just because the man who lost the popular vote somehow ended up in office.  For the campaign leading up to that end game was nightmarish too.

Megan Rapinoe Kneels For Anthem at NWSL Match  —  The 31-year-old from Redding, Calif., displayed support for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick Sunday night, kneeling while the national anthem was played before a Seattle-Chicago match.  —  BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. …

U.S. investigating potential covert Russian plan to disrupt November elections  —  U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are probing what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions …

Trump's history of corruption is mind-boggling.  So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?  —  In the heat of a presidential campaign, you'd think that a story about one party's nominee giving a large contribution to a state attorney general who promptly shut down an inquiry into that nominee's scam …

Woman Caught on Video Trying to Steal Man's Front Yard Trump Sign — but Karma Is Swift  —  When an Indianapolis man, identified only as Phillip, posted a Donald Trump campaign sign in his front yard, he anticipated some backlash.  —  His concerns turned out to be valid as he said it didn't take long …

Piers Morgan asks child trophy hunter: What if I killed your pet cat?  —  Piers Morgan had a heated debate with a child trophy hunter and her father on Good Morning Britain.  —  Aryanna Gourdin, 12, from America, has stoked outrage online after she and her father posted pictures trophy hunting.

Clinton Takes Questions From Press: “How Was Your Labor Day Weekend?”  “Are You Ready?”  —  Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greeted the press who are traveling on her new airplane on Monday morning and took a few questions.  —  Clinton, under pressure for not holding …

Trump Is Not Planning On Mock Debates For Practice Against Clinton  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he's not really planning on holding mock debates in order to prepare for a televised debate against Hillary Clinton.  —  “I hadn't planned on it,” …

BREAKING: NYS GOP Group Kicks Out Cornell Group for Endorsing Libertarian Ticket  —  The New York Federation of College Republicans announced Saturday that it is revoking the credentials of the Cornell University Republicans over the Cornell group's endorsement of Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president.

The bloody history of Labor Day  —  Most people probably don't think of Labor Day as a holiday commemorating struggle and death.  But that's what it used to be.  —  The period between the Civil War and the Great Depression was a time of massive upheaval: The industrial revolution swept in …

Donald Trump Does Detroit  —  So, after weeks of preaching his sinister sermon of black pathology to mostly white audiences as part of his utterly fake “black outreach” — which is in fact the effort of a bigot to disguise his bigotry — Donald Trump finally brought his message before a few mostly black audiences.

Now the burka is banned... by ISIS!  Terror group outlaws the Islamic garb from their buildings because they are a SECURITY RISK  —  ISIS has outlawed the burka at their security centres in a northern Iraqi city, despite previously brutally enforcing a law requiring them to be worn.

Obama Plays Down Confrontation With China Over His Plane's Stairs  —  HANGZHOU, China — When Air Force One taxied to a stop here on Saturday afternoon, American and Chinese officials had already engaged in a lengthy, heated dispute over the most mundane of issues: How would the president depart his plane?

Exclusive: Hillary Clinton Says Husband Bill Should Not Have to Resign From Foundation Until After Election  —  Hillary Clinton told ABC News' David Muir today that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, should not have to step down before the election from his position at the Clinton Foundation.

All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup  —  You: doing more with less.  Corporate profits: going strong.  The dirty secret of the jobless recovery. … On a bright spring day  —  in a wisteria-bedecked courtyard full of earnest, if half-drunk, conference attendees, we were commiserating …